Justice written question – answered at on 24 January 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 28 November 2012, Official Report, column 428W, on the legal aid scheme, how many people have received legal aid for asylum and immigration issues in each of the last five years.
It is not possible to state how many individuals received legal aid as an individual can receive more than one act of assistance and one act of assistance can assist more than one individual(1). The number of acts of assistance for immigration and asylum matters funded by legal aid in each of the past five years is as follows:
(1 )An act of assistance is the provision of legal advice and help or the grant of a certificate in more serious and complicated cases.
Number of acts of assistance in immigration and asylum | |
2007-08 | 86,646 |
2008-09 | 97,268 |
2009-10 | 101,634 |
2010-11 | 85,917 |
2011-12 | 86,646 |
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